In Judges, chapter six, verse thirteen, Gideon’s question should be in consideration by New Testament believers. If God’s miraculous power is lacking among us, we must seek His kingdom and righteousness until God’s mighty acts until the manifestation occurs in our midst.
The Angel of the Lord has appeared to Gideon as he works secretly. Gideon is threshing wheat in a winepress to avoid detection by invading marauders, as in Judges six, one through eleven. This stranger, who likely did not look like an angel, greeted Gideon by describing him as a strong warrior in verse twelve. Such praise is ironic for a timid man verses seventeen, twenty-seven, thirty-six through forty, respectively, hiding his food from potential enemies. Yet the phrase Gideon responds to is the first part of Angel’s greeting: that the Lord God was with him.